It looks like Neil Danns is now a Wanderers’ player
As I rise from my sickbed- dead bacteria swimming around in my lower-intestine from the antibiotics, with a headache to end all headaches from the lumbar-puncture- I read some positive news coming out of the Reebok.
Dougie Freedman made Neil Danns one of his top January targets, after the midfielder’s successful loan spell in the north-west. Now, Nigel Pearson today has revealed that Bolton Wanderers were in ‘advanced talks’ with the 31-year-old work-horse.
After the eye-watering financial bombshell this week, supporters- if they hadn’t already realised- are now understanding, gone are the days of the Premier League fantasy of big-money transfers and big-name signings. We should also curb our enthusiasm for any exciting recruitments who are going to take the Championship by storm.
Neil Danns isn’t a player Bolton Wanderers’ supporters want. Neil Danns is a player that Bolton Wanderers’ supporters need. Neil Danns is the type of player that can reconnect fans with their club again. His work-rate, endeavour and eye-for-goal will get the terrace folk expressing emotions in a positive manner, which can only aid our predicament.
The recruitment of Neil Danns isn’t building a team for the future, nor is it building a team for an assault on a Premiership push. The recruitment of Neil Danns is an exercise by our manager in bringing stability and harmony to a club whose future seems anything but certain.
Dougie wants players and fans to understand together what difficulties the club faces and what he’s trying to do tactically on the football field. Neil Danns is the perfect protagonist to unite both parties whom seem to be at loggerheads at the minute.
If the ship is eventually settled and Bolton fans eventually see light on the horizon with Dougie still in charge, it will be players like Neil Danns who will be responsible for such upturns in prosperity.
And for that reason I say, welcome back to the Reebok, Neil Danns, for both fans’ and manager’s sake, alike.